Publication details
CrocoBLAST: Running BLAST efficiently in the age of next-generation sequencing
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Bioinformatics |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/article-abstract/33/22/3648/4004881 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btx465 |
| Keywords | sequence analysis; genomics; genome annotation; BLAST |
| Description | CrocoBLAST is a tool for dramatically speeding up BLAST+ execution on any computer. Alignments that would take days or weeks with NCBI BLAST+ can be run overnight with CrocoBLAST. Additionally, CrocoBLAST provides features critical for NGS data analysis, including: results identical to those of BLAST+; compatibility with any BLAST+ version; real-time information regarding calculation progress and remaining run time; access to partial alignment results; queueing, pausing, and resuming BLAST+ calculations without information loss. CrocoBLAST is freely available online, with ample documentation (webchem.ncbr.muni.cz/Platform/App/CrocoBLAST). No installation or user registration is required. CrocoBLAST is implemented in C, while the graphical user interface is implemented in Java. CrocoBLAST is supported under Linux and Windows, and can be run under Mac OS X in a Linux virtual machine. |
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